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Joseph Adler has many years of experience in data science at companies including LinkedIn, Netflix and VeriSign. He graduated from MIT with an Sc.B and M.Eng in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is the inventor of several patents for computer security and cryptography, and the author of Baseball Hacks and R in a Nutshell. Currently, he is an analytics lead at Facebook.

"I am pleased to report that Adler has risen to the challenge of the highly-regarded Nutshell franchise. As is traditional for the series, this title mixes introduction, tutorial, and reference material in a style that is well suited to a reader who already has a background in programming, but is a new or occasional user of R...As a long-time OReilly reader, I see Joseph Adlers R in a Nutshell as a welcome addition to the menagerie."
--Joel Neely, Sliding up the banister

"This book is a superb intro­duc­tion to the tool, but it also serves the func­tion of handy desktop com­pan­ion for explor­ing further."
--Shawn Day, randomosity

"Are you a baseball aficionado or fanatic who is interested in statistics and want to know how to load this data into a database for analysis? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Joseph Adler has done an outstanding job of writing a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball...This most excellent book is an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. More importantly, this book is a cookbook for baseball research."
--John Vacca, Amazon.com